Wednesday, February 20, 2008

The impact on the earth's environment

I have some impacts on the environment.I like to spend water by the time I take shower or wash.I know that I should not spend freshwater.In my country, water I use is not very clean. I usually don't care about water resource since we can get a lot of water and it is raw water that we receive. But when I am in Singapore, I heard that freshwater is imported from Malaysia and it is an important case. When I use toilet, I find that the amount of water to clean out is much less. It is also true for basin and sink.They use automatically close mechanism in the tap so that not to waste water.In my country, some people forget to close taps after using basin which means we spend water.I think my country's basins' and sinks' taps should be substituted with those.The other thing people want to save water in Singapore might be because water is totally fresh--people can drink directly from tap!So, they value it.In my country, water is raw water.We need to boil it before we drink.Though most of the people want to save water, their interest is less as they can get water a lot.

The another thing is electricity. Over 50 % of the power plants have considerable carbon footprint.I am used to save electricity since in my country, we could not get the light full time.Sometimes, we could only use electricity within alternative period.Government encourages people to save the light, to understand the cause and effect of saving it and, as a result, we have low carbon foot print.But in Singapore, people do not keen so much to save electricity.Even in toilets and sinks, they use automatic sensor to flush water.Although the amount electricity is very little for each one, the total amount is huge.In my opinion,we should use man mechanical energy to flush water.

I absolutely appreciate the idea of saving the earth. Everyone should try to save the earth as much as they can.One's act is,maybe, nothing, but the total act is a huge advantage.For me, I try to not to spend electricity, water.I use every paper on both sides.I know that some ways of saving the earth interfere with my personal comfort.Nevertheless, we should try to conserve the earth as much as we can so that next generation can have benefits.

Saturday, February 9, 2008

Difficulties I encounter whenever I have writing

Whenever I need to write an essay, a letter or something like that, the first problem in my mind is what should I write down. I don't know where should I start and it takes me a bit longer than others to initialize it. After that step, I have a momentum to write further. But the problem is how to organize an essay effectively and efficiently through out writing. I have had a problem that after writing down an essay, my essay was somehow not in chronological order ,or the arrangement or partitioning paragraphs did not match completely.

How can I resolve them?If I have writing at home, there will be no problems since I have sufficient time to re-edit it. But it also takes longer than it should take. If I am writing it at exam-time,then I will have the pressure to finish it in time. It makes me worse.So what I need is practice to finish within the limited time. I need to manage my time well to plan and organize an essay. I know that I should write down a drift or outline first. But sometimes, I am lazy to write preliminary sketch. Because I am not used to writing mindmap or outline first, I cannot manage to finish on time when I make that step first. Although my essay is well organized, it is incomplete- too bad.

To summarize , it is my fault not practicing. I know that I need to prepare to get a good essay within the limited time. The biggest weakness I have is that I cannot response or analyze simultaneously. It takes me longer than other.I suppose that the best thing to do is to practice writing more in an effective way.